Resistant vs Restrain - What's the difference?
resistant | restrain |
A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
A thing which resists.
Which makes resistance or offers opposition.
Which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature, etc.
(statistics) Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample.
To control or keep in check.
To deprive of liberty.
To restrict or limit.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19
, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
As verbs the difference between resistant and restrain
is that resistant is while restrain is to control or keep in check.As a noun resistant
is resistant.As an adjective resistant
is resistant.resistant
English
Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- The infection is resistant to antibiotics.
Derived terms
* resistantlySee also
* robustReferences
*Anagrams
* ----restrain
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}